Evaluación del nivel de cogestión en las áreas de conservación regional de Loreto en un contexto de cambio climático

Abstract

Between 2012 and 2013, a rapid assessment of co-management was carried out in the three Areas of Regional conservation of the Loreto region, administered by the Regional Government through the Program of Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity in of the Loreto Region (PROCREL). The objective was to determine the levels of implementation of the concept of co-management in Areas of Regional conservation in a context of climate change and its main productive ecosystems. The results showed that there was a co-management construction process at a basic stage in which institutions such as management committees or resource management committees were being created, which in some cases duplicated tasks with other similar institutions created by actors external to the Areas of Regional conservation and that had not yet been considered in the co-management model.

The three Areas of Regional conservation have different realities and, therefore, management should not be standardized; this invites the creation of different co-management strategies, but at the same time a critique is made of the role of the State, represented by PROCREL, in its role of promoter of co-management by neglecting criteria of power sharing and citizen control.

Climate change is a growing threat factor in Areas of Regional conservation and is reflected in the problems regularly identified in their production systems, creating co-management models that allow delegating adaptation and mitigation tasks and dividing risks between the different actors is key.